Anthropology.net (anthropology.net):
… how long humanity’s culinary efforts have been sending smoke billowing forth into the atmosphere. Harvard anthropologist Professor Richard Wrangham has recently published a book, ‘Catching Fire – How Cooking Made Us Human’,(NYT review)and although I haven’t read the contents, it appears he has plenty of interesting thoughts on how our archaic ancestors turned their hands to cooking their food, in one stroke increasing the calorific value of their menu, freeing up vast amounts of time for other activ …

Chimpanzee Tea Party (chimpanzeeteaparty.blogspot.com):
… with little over 200 pages of text (lots of footnotes though). Read it, and your mastery of a provacative and controversial theory of human evolution will amaze your friends at dinner parties! Now then, the basic theory presented is detailed betterelsewhere, but in short, the idea is that our ancestors started cooking a lot earlier than is commonly believed. Wrangham asserts that, indeed, it was cooking itself that propelled habilines to Homo erectus to Homo sapiens. He cites massive changes in …

blog 3.0 (www.fusu.ro):
… of death; The pirates of Prague - an exiled fund prodigy and his brash Wall Street mentor promised to teach Czech industry western management methods. Instead, investors learned a painful lesson about the perils of emerging markets.Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes?It’s the Cooking, Stupid. Superhero Decadence: Vanity - cine-i mai tare, Superman sau Batman?   …

Are you "Eating With Your Anorexic?" (eatingwithyouranorexic.blogspot.com):
… My daughter pointed me to this review:‘Catching Fire’ by Richard Wranghamand I shall be very interested to hear the impressions of others on this! …

Later On (leisureguy.wordpress.com):
… I knew cooking was important, of course, but had no idea how important.Dwight Garner reviews a book in the NY Times: Human beings are not obviously equipped to be nature’s gladiators. We have no claws, no armor. That we eat meat seems surprising, because we are not made for chewing it uncooked in the wild. Our jaws are weak; our teeth are blunt; our mouths are small. That thing …

U.S. Food Policy (usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com):
… calories. They also say that the body produces the enzymes it needs to digest foods. Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham recently released his provocative new book, CATCHING FIRE: How Cooking Made Us Human, which was recently reviewed by theNew York Times. As an RD, I thought I'd hop over to eatright.org to see what the American Dietetic Association Public Relations Team had to say: The premise of the raw food diet is to cook foods below 160 degrees Fahrenheit to keep food enzymes intact so that the …

Raw Lovin (blog.raw-living-food-success.com):
… meat, that made man what he is, and have written extensively about this in my new book...i.e.....that it was cooking that gave man the larger brain and ability to do other things besides just eat and look for food, not meat. { Please do read the fullNew York Times Review of the book, it's great. Also, I have not read the book yet, so what I write is based upon what I learned from the NY Times Review. Certainly I will have more to say once I read it, and this is just my first spontaneous response. And here are some more editorial …

eBalance: Heinrich von Grünigens Blog (www.ebalanceblog.ch):
… Ur-Kultur hochhalten sollten. Und dass ein schnöder Umgang mit lieblos hingeklackster Fabrikpampe ein eigentlicher Verrat an unserem kulturellen Herkommen darstellt... solche Gedanken beschleichen den hingebungsvollen Esser bei der Lektüre derBuchbersprechung in der Times. …

Barbarism Begins at Home (barbarismbeginsathome.com):
… ‘Catching Fire’ by Richard Wrangham - Humans, the Cooking Apes - Review - NYTimes.com …

FriendsEAT.com (blog.friendseat.com):
… Cave People Making FiresDwight Garner with the NYTimeswrote an interesting review of Richard Wrangham’s new book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard christens we humans as “the cooking apes, the creatures of the flame.” Wrangham posits that …

Bitten (bitten.blogs.nytimes.com):
… Rick Friedman for The new York times Richard Wrangham, the author of “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.” Dwight Garner has writtena reviewof a wonderful-sounding new book by Richard Wrangham, in which he argues that it’s cooking that makes humans human (as opposed to ape-ish). Mr. Wrangham skewers both the raw-food “movement” and the argument that we “need” meat to survive, in fa …

Marginal Revolution (www.marginalrevolution.com):
… a minority group among raw-foodists, believe that because we are closely related to apes we should model our eating behavior on theirs. In fact I liked the book -- How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham -- very much.  Here isa good review of the book.  The one sentence version is: We are cooks more than carnivores. I also liked this fragment:...a bachelor is a sorry creature in subsistence societies... Here is a strange and wild critique of Instinctotherapy. …

Alex Torex Blog (alextorex.wordpress.com):
… meat and honey. While other habilines” — tool-using prehumans — “elsewhere in Africa continued for several hundred thousand years to eat their food raw, one lucky group became Homo erectus — and humanity began.”www.nytimes.comPosted in Science …

John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (www.john-goodman-blog.com):
… Solution to pre-existing conditions problem: In some states you can start a business and become a one-person group. Obesity update: financial rewards don't work. [Study gated with abstract.]Cooking has evolutionary survival value: something even Darwin didn't think of. …

The Blogs at HowStuffWorks (blogs.howstuffworks.com):
… spotted? - "Cosmologists don't usually take their lead from the animal kingdom. But a model that postulates the existence of a 'chameleon' particle — which would change its mass depending on its surroundings — is gaining attention..."Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid- "Human beings are not obviously equipped to be nature’s gladiators. We have no claws, no armor. That we eat meat seems surprising, because we are not made for chewing it uncooked in the wild. Our jaws are weak; our teeth are blunt; our mouths are small. That thing be …

Hi, I'm Zack (zackgilbert.tumblr.com):
… Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid …

Illuminati Unlimited (www.illuminatiunlimited.com):
… at Harvard and the author of “Catching Fire,” however, these facts and others demonstrate something quite different. They help prove that we are, as he vividly puts it, “the cooking apes, the creatures of the flame.”LINKVia: The New York Times …

Doctor Recommended (movementarian.com):
… - The Evolution of House Cats ( Scientific American ) - A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks ( NY Times ) - Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid (NY Times) - HTML 5 and Web video: freeing rich media from plugin prison ( ArsTechnica ) - Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later ( CNet ) - Mozilla: In the Shadow of the “Don’t-Be-Evil Bulldozer” ( All Things Digital ) - Top 10 …

ArianeBurke.com (www.arianeburke.com):
… and thoroughly gripping scientific essay that presents nothing less than a new theory of human evolution, one he calls “the cooking hypothesis,” one that Darwin (among others) simply missed. Read the rest of the article at theSOURCE. Anthropology and Sociology are ever-intriguing fields of study for me. To study what makes us human is to study life and the complex connections and interactions woven throughout its vastness. It makes common observation more amazing and …

GoodEater.org - GoodEater (www.goodeater.org):
… ThisNew York Times article covers Richard Wrangham's book, "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human," which posits that more than eating meat, more than hunting, more than tools, it's our use of fire and the ability to cook that was the breakthrough in our evolution: "Put simply, Mr. W …